Jack Delano
Sharecropper and Wife, Georgia

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Artist Jack DelanoAmerican, born Ukraine, 1914–1997

Printer Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

CultureAmerican

Titles

Sharecropper and Wife, Georgia
Negro preacher and his wife sitting under photos taken of them twenty years ago. They live in an old converted schoolhouse with two grandchildren. The rest of their children have moved out of the county. Heard County, Georgia

DateApril 1941, printed 1976

PlaceGeorgia, United States

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 13 1/2 × 10 1/16 in. (34.3 × 25.6 cm)
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 11 in. (35.4 × 27.9 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Mr. and Mrs. Alvin S. Romansky

Object number76.384

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

ProvenanceLibrary of Congress, Washington, DC; purchased by MFAH, 1976.
Exhibition History"The 150th Anniversary of the Invention of Photography: Prague 1989," Manes Center of the Union of Czechoslovak Creative Artists, Progue, c/o U.S.I.A., Washington, D.C., August 1–September 30, 1989.

"Introducing America to Americans: Depression-era Photographs from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts, Spring, Texas, June 10–September 9, 2017.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

verso top right in pencil "RS 53142[underlined] / F34-43918"
bottom right corner "Jack Delano"

verso lower left a stamp "Reproduced from the collection of the Library of Congress"

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